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TO THE MEMORY 



JAMES GRAIK, D.D., LL.D 



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'A life well led 
This truth commends, 
With quick and dead 
It never ends." 



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THE WARDENS AND VESTRYMEN OP CHRIST CHURCH 
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TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR LATE 



RECTOR, 



Who was Revered and Loved in the Comjiunity where for 

so MANY YEARS HE LIVED A SPOTLESS LiFE ; 
WHO WAS HONORED BY THE 

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AVITH ITS HIGHEST GIFTS, AND WHO TO HIS OWN FLOCK 
WAS EVER THE 



IN MEMORIAM 



The following pages contain many tributes from different sources 
to the memory of a good man and a devout servant of God, who, 
through a long and singularly pure life in the ministry of Christ's 
Church, served his Master faithfully by doing the work assigned 
him, and after a long, active, and earnest pastorate, peacefully fell 
asleep. 

This little volume, not a biography, is only an offering of love 
which seeks to put in permanent form the testimony of living men 
to the character and Avorth of one who stood as a Christian leader 
among them. The lives of such men are precions legacies to the 
future ; and tributes, which embalm their memory, showing how love 
and honor, from all who marked them, graced their lives, give high 
incentives to those coming after to follow their example of noble 
living. A life so clear, so strong, so reverent, and so dutiful is full 
of wholesome teachings to men, and its lessons are never to be 
lost; they are our best, our surest guides, leading, like beacon- 
lights, into paths of truth and peace. 

The sad announcement of Dr. Craik's death was not unexpected. 
He had passed the allotted ^^ three score and ten '^ in the full use of 
his mental and physical powers; of the former he had retained 
possession almost to the end, but for two years the latter had begun 
to fail although he had ever guarded his body as a faithful instru- 
ment for the service of Christ, and honored it as the "Temple of 
the Holy Ghost.'' 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

In the latter part of February his condition became serious, and 
anxious forebodings filled the hearts of his many friends, who were 
constant in their visits and attentions until the end came, at the 
close of the 9th day of June, 1882. 

His suiferings, which were intense, were borne with a cheerful 
patience and without a murmur. 

About an hour before death his faithful physician. Dr. Cheno- 
weth, left him, and besides the members of Dr. Craik^s family, only 
those present in the chamber of death were the Kev. Mr. Tschiffely 
and two or three old friends and parishioners. 

Commendatory prayers were constantly offered and words of 
Holy Scripture read. A half hour was thus passed when absolution 
was pronounced by the minister in attendance. The dying man had 
aroused himself and been listening attentively and composedly, and 
at the conclusion of the absolution he responded "Amen, I am 
happy,^' and in a few moments breathed his last in the arms of his 
wife and family. 

The intelligence of Dr. Craik^s death spread rapidly, and was 
announced in the city papers of the following day, and throughout 
the country. As an evidence of the high estimation in which he was 
held in this community, and a most admirable portrayal of his char- 
acter, the folloAving editorial from the "Louisville Evening Post^^ is 
here inserted: 

A NOBLE PASTOR. 

Many a time and oft, as the full-toned words and the all-com- 
prehensive thoughts in the burial service of the Episcopal ceremony 
trembled on the lips of the loved pastor of Christ Church, has the 
heart of every hearer been touched. How often have the triumph- 
ant words,. " O death ! where is thy sting ? O grave ! where is thy 
victory?^' uttered with uplifted gaze, lingering on the cross visible 
to the trusting eye, chastened the grief of those who mourned! In 
a pastorate of eight and thirty years over a loving and beloved 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

flock — for such they were to him — the Rev. Dr. Craik has spoken 
the parting word and performed the holy oflice over tke old and 
young. Perhaps not one family in his large congregation but cher- 
ish some consolation in the memory of his ministrations on such 
sad occasions. Children that were folded in his arms at the font, 
about whom he drew the circle of the church, on whose foreheads 
he marked the emblem of loving kindness, have grown up, passed 
through lives of usefulness, and been buried under his pastorate. 
The life of Dr. Craik is indeed bound up in the history of the fam- 
ilies of his congregation. 

His life, in its relations to other lives in this community, is 
certainly the most remarkable that our people have been blessed 
with. It is not alone a matter of his own church. The record of 
his pastorate must afford a common theme to all good citizens. He 
Avas not a controversialist in the sense of antagonizing other churches. 
He came into conflict with no prejudices of any other form of reli- 
gion. Every one who sought a pure life, or who was capable of 
rising to unreserved admiration for a blameless existence, loved 
Dr. Craik. While his published works brought him into esteem, 
especially with the divines in England ; and while his ability was 
recognized by high office and honor in the conventions of the 
body of the Episcopal Church, his influence w^as mainly and in 
a marked degree over his own people. His learning, and indeed 
all those qualities which ambitious men usually turn to personal 
advantage, went, in his case, to the elevation of his private char- 
acter. The affection of his people Avas not merely admiration. 
His very domestic life Avas given to his flock as an example of 
the beauties of Christianity. 

For nearly forty years he lived not only in one community 
but in one spot. The very social system that surrounded him 
was overturned — the fortunes of the people who lived about him 
Avere utterly AA^recked — great estates crumbled — poverty laid its 
unrelenting hand on the friends Avho formed that fondly remem- 
bered community — and change marked with rapid strokes the 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

quick -passing time — but the pastor seemed to be spared. It 
may seem a common-place reflection to make, but the circum- 
stances of Dr. Craik^s life at his country home, ^^ Kanawha/' 
are to us matter for profitable reflection. 

To one who, as a child years back, remembers his pleasure 
as the family carriage rolled over the deadened drive of ^^ Kan- 
awha," and recalls his delight at the air of peace which was 
about the grounds, and that found a joyous emphasis in the 
unharmed birds that fluttered and sang among the flowers. Dr. 
Craik's family home was always a blessed place. The boy, 
remembering the wrecked fortunes of the good pastor's neigh- 
borhood, visiting the same happy grounds after the storm of 
war, could not but feel that there was a benediction over that 
home. It has stood as if built on sure foundations. The home 
itself, the same as twenty or thirty years ago, was assurance 
that a contented man, not ambitious of worldly gain, was there 
passing his life in peace. What dignity, what honor, what 
peace of mind ! 

The influence exercised by this divine, so remarkable in these 
moral virtues and outward attributes, is hardly conceivable, or 
at least is perhaps not realized by those unfamiliar with the 
circumstances. The old community, scattered to the winds by 
the cruelty of the war, most resembled the condition of soci- 
ety under the settled forms of England; and not one of those 
so sorely tried since, wherever they may be, whatever has inter- 
vened, but whose thoughts do not return with a glow to the 
remembrance of the days when Dr. Craik was the chief figure 
of his trust and his admiration. 

Dr. Craik was past the age ordinarily allotted to man — 
seventy-six years of a noble life were given him — and about 
his grave will stand a gathering of people who will cherish 
his memory with a sincerity and a depth of feeling rarely enter- 
tained so widely for any man in any position, however exalted. 

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IN MEMORIAM. 



VESTRY OF CHRIST CHURCH. 



Having received the intelligence of tlieir great loss, the Vestry 
of Christ Church met on the afternoon of Saturday in the vestry- 
room of the church, which loving hands had already draped with 
mourning. The proper committees being appointed, the one on 
resolutions presented the following, which were adopted : 

The Rev. James Craik, D.D., the beloved rector of Christ 
Church, having departed this life on Friday, the 9th of June, at 
11:15 P.M., it becomes proper that the vestry should place on rec- 
ord their high appreciation of his long and useful life. 

Dr. Craik became rector of Christ Church in 1844, and has 
nearly completed a pastorate of thirty-eight years. He w^as one 
of those who impress their character on the age in which they 
live. His books — ^^The Divine Life'^ and ^^Old and New^' — were 
strong and lucid expositions of theological questions then agitating 
Christian people, and received the approval of the first minds in 
our own country and in the Church of England. He was a prom- 
inent advocate of the truth of revealed religion, and for many of 
his later years successfully exposed the fallacies current under the 
name of science. 

As a preacher he was learned and philosophical; sound in doc- 
trine and earnest in delivery. Few ministers have greater cause 
of thankfulness than he in regard to the number of his converts 
and the purity of their lives. Besides the work of preaching, 
which gave him so strong a hold on the minds of his congrega- 
tion, he was doubly endeared to their hearts by the daily round 
of duty which called him to baptize the infant; to instruct the 
youth and prepare them for confirmation; to solemnize the mar- 
riage vows, and give the Churches beautiful benediction on the 
newly married; to comfort the mourner, to visit the sick, and to 
administer to them the last and highest consolations of the Holy 
Sacrament; and to bury the dead, with the assurance of the resur- 

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IN ME MORI AM. 

rection and endless happiness. These were the works of his life. 
Much of the fruit of his labors has been gathered to the better 
world. A generation advanced in years attests his diligent fidel- 
ity^ while their children have learned to love and regard him as 
a pure father and guide. 

In the councils of the Church Dr. Craik received many well- 
earned honors. He was called to preside over the House of Dep- 
uties of the General Convention which met in New York in 1862. 
In that stormy epoch of civil war it required all grace and mod- 
eration to prevent the passage of political resolutions calculated to 
intensify the already excited condition of the public mind. So well 
was the point guarded that when the General Convention met again 
in October, 1866, Dr. Craik being again chosen president, there had 
been nothing done that needed to be undone. The South and the 
North became again one Church. The great conservative men of 
the General Convention, from 1862 to 1874, gave a large portion 
of the honor of preserving the unity of the Church in those peril- 
ous times to the calm and gentle course of Dr. Craik, their hon- 
ored president. 

In addition to his purely ministerial labors, he was an honored 
founder of the Orphanage of the Good Shepherd. The land for 
this institution was donated by a generous -hearted lady, then a 
member of this parish. There he often ministered the Word 
and Sacraments. There is not time to speak of missions founded 
and feeble churches assisted through his appeals. We must pass on 
to one, the last work, which he so longed to see finished, viz., the 
Church Home and Infirmary — the land and the magnificent build- 
ings for the institution being the free gift of a generous member 
of Christ Church. Dr. Craik's cherished desire was to live to see 
that house completed, but this was denied him. His Master saw 
that his work was done, and called him away. 

Dr. Craik was always courteous and dignified. His refined and 
gentle manners won for him the affections of the people, and his 
presence was itself a rebuke to sin and irreverence. Kindness and 

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love so tempered his rebukes that his words seldom gave offense. 
His pure character was universally acknowledged, and was a power 
in the community for good. In public worship his manner was so 
marked with reverence that it imparted emphasis and power to 
the words he spoke. In the domestic circle his life was lovely. 
He had the blessing of seeing a large family of children grow up 
to be honored Christian men and women. His private life was 
dear to the hearts of all who knew him. Memory loves to linger 
on such topics. As a father, a friend, a pastor, few have equaled 
and fewer have excelled him. And in addition to this rich legacy 
which Dr. Craik has left his flock in his teachings, both by word 
and life, it was the happy lot of Christ Church to have enjoyed, 
for ten years just gone, the ministrations and high example of 
noble living of its lamented associate rector. Dr. John N. Norton, 
whose good words and good deeds, with those of the loved rector, 
are cherished with the most precious recollections of their sorrow- 
ing congregation. 

Dr. Craik^s last hours of his last day were spent in speaking 
words of love to his children, in pronouncing blessings over his 
visiting friends and on his absent congregation. As the final 
moment approached, the rector of Grace Church offered' the com- 
mendatory prayer and the absolution, to which the dying minister 
responded Amen, saying, " I am happy,^^ and in a few moments 
breathed his last. 

Dr. Craik has lived a long life and left a name without a stain. 
He practiced what he preached, making his daily life a sermon 
which none could misunderstand and all must agree to honor. He 
finished his course in the Catholic Faith full of hope, in peace with 
God and man. He has gone to his everlasting reward. 

Resolved, That a copy of this minute be sent to the family of the deceased, 
with the expression of our sympathy in their affliction, and our sorrow at the 
great loss which the Church and the Diocese have sustained. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be given to the daily papers of the city and 
also to the Church papers for publication. 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

The Vestry then adjourned and proceeded as a body to "Kan- 
awha/' the country home of the late Rector, to pay their sorrowing 
respects to the family. 

THE BURIAL. 

The following day (Sunday, June 11th) Divine Service was 
held and the Holy Communion administered in Christ Church by 
the Rector of Grace Church. 

Monday morning, Jane 12th, the Vestry of Christ Church and 
Rev. Mr. Tschiffely escorted the body of the late Dr. Craik from the 
family residence in the country to the church, where they arrived 
at 12 M. Several of the clergy, vested, met the body at the door, 
and preceding the corpse entered the church, where quite a congre- 
gation was gathered, the Rev. Mr. Tschiffely reading the sentences 
in the Burial Office. The casket was deposited at the chancel steps, 
and then Mr. Tschiffely read the Litany. All the clergy then left 
the chancel but two, who, seated in the stalls, one on either side 
of the chancel, remained as a guard of honor. At 1 p. m. several 
of the Psalms were read by the clergy and people present, and a 
few collects w^ere offered. At two, three, and four o'clock the same 
order was followed, the clergy being relieved at each hour. 

During this time the coffin was open, affording an opportunity 
for friends to look for the last time upon the familiar features of 
the venerable and beloved priest, and for four hours an almost 
continuous line of mourners passed by the remains to take a fare- 
well look at their departed pastor, only interrupted by the tolling 
of the bell bidding to prayer. Floral tributes were constantly 
arriving, which were as remarkable for beauty of design and 
structure as for their unusual number. Of these one of the most 
beautiful, as it was most appropriate in design, was a pastoral 
staff, having a card attached with the inscription "For our dear 
Shepherd, from the Sisters and Boys of the Orphanage of the Good 
Shepherd,'^ of which institution Dr. Craik had been Chaplain from 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

its opening. This staff was laid on the coffin with a sheaf of ripened 
wheat and a few flowers. The other tributes were placed in and 
about the chancel, converting it into one mass of flowers. 

At 4 : 30 o'clock Bishop Dudley and fifteen of the clergy, followed 
by the pall-bearers, and vestries of the city parishes, entered the 
church by the west door, reciting Psalm cxxx as they moved to 
the chancel, the large building being packed with people. 

After the singing of the Anthem the Bishop read the Lesson ; 
when the choir rendered a number from Mozart's Requiem, and 
the Rector of Grace Church read the Creed and offered prayer, 
after which Hymn 260 was sung. 

The day had been cloudy and threatening rain, and during the 
service it poured down as though the clouds had burst, compelling a 
pause before leaving the church till the storm had somewhat abated. 

As the body was borne forth from the church where Dr. 
Craik had ministered for so many years, one of the clergy carried 
before it the pastoral staff sent by the Sisters, which found its 
last resting place on the grave of their departed Shepherd. 

As the cortege moved to the cemetery the clouds broke away, 
and a bright sun poured down its genial smiles upon the la 
resting place of the body of the beloved Priest. 

The Bishop took the services in the cemetery, the Rev. Mr. 
Tschiffely casting in the earth at the Committal, the choir singing 
Hymn 335 while the grave was being filled. The numerous floral 
tributes placed on and about the grave completely hid it, as 
though Love would conceal the apparent victory of Death, and 
by these beautiful symbols of the resurrection lead the thoughts 
of the mourners to that day when the grave shall give up its 
dead, and the saints, being clothed upon, shall enter forever into 
the joy of their Lord. 

Gloria in Excelsis was sung, after which the Bishop read the 
Collect for All Saints Day and dismissed the immense congrega- 
tion with the Benediction of Peace. 



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IN MEMORIAM. 



MIl^UTES OF TESTEIES, &c. 



THE CLERGY. 



At a meeting of the clergy present at the funeral of the late 
Rector of Christ Church, the following minute offered by Bishop 
Dudley was, on the motion of the Rev. E. T. Perkins, D. J)., sec- 
onded by the Rev. L. P. Tschiffely, B. D., adopted and ordered to 
be published in the Kentucky Church Chronicle and daily papers 
of this city. It was further resolved that a copy of the minute be 
sent to Mrs. Craik. 

The clergy permitted to be present at the burial of the mortal 
remains of the late James Craik, Doctor in Divinity, and Rector 
of Christ Church, Louisville, are unwilling to separate without 
having placed on record their sense of loss in the departure to 
the rest of Paradise of this, their eldest brother in the Ministry 
of the Church. 

They would devoutly praise the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ for the good example of this. His servant, who has 
finished a course so long, and now rests from labors so abundant. 

They would exhort one another and all their brethren in the 
Ministry to emulate this example of incorruptness in faith and 
doctrine, of good learning and well-trained power in the Scriptures, 
of fearless confession of that he believed, of unflinching opposition 
to the errors of his time, of patient diligence in the discharge of 
pastoral duty. 

They would bid all Christian ministers look upon the result 
of a life-time labor in one single parish, and behold how, under 
the loving ministrations of our departed brother, the little one has 
become a thousand; how the gathered weight of years gave an 

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IN ME MORI AM. 

impulse mighty for good to the services of the aged Priest when 
his eye was dim and his natural force well-nigh exhausted; and 
how a great city mourns for the servant of Christ because for 
thirty and eight years he has lived the gospel before its eyes. 

And so they turn away from his grave^ each to his own 
appointed path of labor and of suffering for the Master^s sake, 
sorrowing in sympathy with the aged widow and her children, and 
yet rejoicing in the added evidence of the truth of Christ^s religion 
aiforded in the life of Dr. Craik, and praying the Father that by 
His grace their ^^last end may be like his.^' 



STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE DIOCESE OF KENTUCKY. 

We, the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Kentucky, wish 
to place upon record an expression of our sense of sore bereave- 
ment in the death of our brother, the Rev. James Craik. It is 
with unfeigned satisfaction that we look back upon the long series 
of years through which our brother has, with one consent, been 
chosen and served as our presiding officer, and recall his constant 
presence at his post of duty, and the fidelity and impartiality with 
which he performed the functions of his office. His familiarity 
with the canon law of our Church made him a safe and reliable 
adviser, and his deep interest in the welfare of the Church which 
he loved so well made him always true in the discharge of duty. 
Though questions often arose concerning which there were differ- 
ences of opinion, yet it is our pleasure to declare that under his 
presidency there has been uniform harmony in our deliberations 
and general agreement in our conclusions. We shall miss him in 
our meetings and mourn his absence. We do but feebly express 
our feeling in the following resolutions : 

Resolved, That we, the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Kentucky, do 
bow with unfeigned submission to the Providence whereby our brother and chief 
adviser, the Rev. James Craik, D.D., who so long and so faithfully has presided 
over our deliberations, has been taken from our midst. 

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Resolved, That we heartily thank God for the quiet departure which He has 
given our brother after a sickness of much suffering, and for the good assurance 
left us that he has an abundant entrance given him into His everlasting kingdom 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Resolved, That Avhile thus perfectly acquiescent and deeply thankful, we do 
yet mourn the departure of our brother, and have a sore sense of our loss. 

Resolved, That we express our sincere condolence with his bereaved family, and 
with the congregation which he has served through so many years, and the Dio- 
cese of which he was so long the chief presbyter. 

Resolved, That a copy of this minute and resolutions be entered upon our 
record, be communicated to the afflicted family and to the Vestry of Christ 
Church, and be published in the Kentucky Church Chronicle and other leading 
church papers. 

E. T. Peekins, 

J. G. MlNNIGERODE^ 

W. F. Bullock, 
Wm. Cornwall, 
Clinton McClarty, J 



- Stajiding Committee. 



BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE ORPHANAGE OF THE 
GOOD SHEPHERD. 

The Board of Guardians of the Orphanage of the Good Shep- 
herd, being assembled in regular monthly meeting on the evening 
of the day on which the mortal remains of the late James Craik, 
D. D., have been deposited in their last resting place, would place 
upon record their appreciation of the many virtues of this departed 
servant of Christ, and their sense of loss in the death of the 
founder and Chaplain of the institution under their care. 

The Board can not but remember that, by a strange coincidence, 
the day of his death is the twelfth anniversary of the opening of 
the house now occupied by the Orphanage, and which was erected 
chiefly by the contributions of his friends in memory of his having 
completed the twenty-fifth year of his Rectorship. 

The Board would place upon the record their testimony that 
during all these years Dr. Craik has been the unfaltering friend 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

of the institution ; that his wise counsels have directed its manage- 
ment^ and his exhortations to his people have relieved its necessi- 
ties^ in periods when but for such counsels and help the institution 
might have been obliged to close its doors. 

The Board Avould express to Mrs. Craik and her children their 
profound sympathy in this their hour of darkness and sorrow, and 
would now venture to suggest, as one solace of their affliction, 
that the Orphanage of the Good Shepherd will ever be his 
monument. 

VESTRY OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. 

At a called meeting of the Rector and Yestry of St. PauPs 
Protestant Episcopal Church, Louisville, June 12, 1882, the fol- 
lowing memorial was presented and unanimously adopted: 

We have convened to give expression to our feelings occa- 
sioned by the death of the Rev. James Craik, D.D., Rector of 
Christ Church, in this city. 

We are deeply affected by this dispensation of Divine Provi- 
dence, and entertain the highest appreciation of the excellent char- 
acter of this venerable servant of God. This is but a feeble 
expression of the sentiments we entertain for our lamented and 
venerated brother. 

We are not here to make an estimate of his intellectual worth, 
or to take an account of his scholarly attainments, or to make 
mention of or even allude to his achievments in the field of letters. 
The occasion is too solemn for the performance of such a task. 

But it is our privilege, and therefore our duty, to attempt 
some delineation of his lovely character, and to speak of his 
Christian example. That character and that example will not be 
buried in his grave, but will live in the grateful memories of a 
confiding and affectionate people. 

We are permitted to say that in his life the Christian graces 
shone forth with more than common luster. He tried to follow 
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in the footsteps of his Divine Master. What more can be said of 
mortal man? Such was his uniform and consistent deportment in 
all the relations of life that public sentiment always assigned him 
his true position — that of a faithful minister of Christ. This is 
not empty eulogy ; it is the truthful ascription of praise to a good 
man and the crowning glory of a well-spent life. 

In the death of this venerable and venerated man of God the 
Diocese of Kentucky has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and 
the cause of Christ one of its ablest defenders. 

The congregation of Christ Church has our heartfelt sympathy 
in the loss they have sustained in the death of their beloved 
Rector. 

Resolved, That this paper be entered upon the minutes of this vestry, and 
a copy thereof be transmitted to the Yestry of Christ Church, and the bereaved 
familv of the deceased. 



VESTRY OF GRACE CHURCH. 

The Rector, Wardens, and Vestry of Grace Church, being 
assembled together by reason of the common bereavement which 
has fallen upon the Church in the calling to Paradise of the Rev. 
James Craik, D. D., late Rector of Christ Church, Louisville, and 
founder of this Parish, make the following minute : 

We thank God, our Heavenly Father, "for the good example 
of this. His servant,^^ ministering in holy things before Him, who, 
through the grace of God, the Holy Ghost, lived a life pure and 
unblamable. To all who came into contact with him, his thought 
was ennobling, his smile a benediction. Like St. Barnabas, on the 
advent of whose vigil he entered upon his rest, it can be said of 
him, '^He was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of 
faith,'' and through his faithful discharge of duty " much people 
was added unto the Lord." 

His life was eventful alike unto the Diocesan and General 
Church, and the full measure of his influence and power will be 

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better known by the generations to come. He spoke in the halls 
of the Commonwealth for peace, when fierce war was preparing to 
bare its terrible arms. A lover of the Union, by reason of the 
association of his nearest kindred to the immortal Washington, and 
his own sense of right, he loved his country and desired its unity. 
Always and in every place his voice, backed by his own example, was 
ever against intemperance, fraud, gambling, and wrong doing. As 
concerning the future of the Nation, he was fully abreast with the age. 

Not for a moment did he lose sight of the Church. To him 
of all realities given to men, this was the greatest. Her Apostolic 
order, fixed Faith, and Sacramental system, were boldly set forth 
in love, and valiantly contended for. And this through treatises 
in magazines, papers, sermons, reviews, and published volumes, 
which made his name to be known and his influence to be felt 
throughout the English-speaking world. Not only did his own 
Parish witness to his labors by cheerful co-operation in erecting 
for God in the city temples where worship should be made, but 
in many places in the Diocese. While earnest, he was keen to 
detect encroachments upon the Faith, and dying, desired to live 
only that he might protect it from concealed foes. He labored 
for and created the Sisterhood for the Diocese, and out of this 
creation grew the noble works, the Orphanage of the Good Shep- 
herd, the Home of the Innocents, and the magnificent Church 
Home, now in building. He was a true Churchman, laboring 
only for Christ and His glory, and his w^orks shall follow him. 

In all the years to come in this city there will be a fragrant 
and undying memory of a pure, faithful Priest of the Catholic 
Church, of unselfish devotion, unwearied labor, abounding hospi- 
tality, and intense faith. 

Beautiful in life, he enters Paradise to be Avelcomed by all the 
faithful, from Adam's day to our own. " He is in the light,'^ and 
upon him the perpetual light will ever shine. He will speak for 
all he has ever loved. He will accomplish more than he ever 
dreamed of here ; and while we sorrow^ with those he has left 

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behind, we sorrow not as those without hope, but believe that for 
all who love him Jesus Christ our Lord has a place prepared for our 
perfect consummation and bliss in his eternal and everlasting glory. 
This minute shall be conveyed to his sorrowing family and to 
the Vestry of Christ Church, and be placed on the permanent 
records of this Parish. 



VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF THE ADVENT. 

Whereas, The Eev. James Craik, D. D,, late Kector of Christ Church, Louis- 
ville, has departed this life; and 

Whereas, This Parish is indebted to him for many years of faithful minis- 
trations and loving care, 

Resolved, That this Yestry, while thanking God for the good example of this, 
His faithful servant, now at rest, can not hut deplore the loss this Parish has 
sustained in the death of its friend. 

Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathies are hereby tendered to the family of 
the departed, and we earnestly pray that our Heavenly Pather may remember 
them in mercy, and comfort them with a sense of His goodness. 

Resolved, That we will attend the funeral of the deceased in a body. 



VESTRY OF CALVARY CHURCH. 

At a called meeting of the Vestry of Calvary Church, held on 
Sunday afternoon, June 11, 1882, the following preamble and 
resolutions were unanimously adopted. 

Whereas, The Great Head of the Church has taken to the rest of Paradise 
the Eev. James Craik, D. D., LL. D., the Yestry of Calvary Church wish to 
express the deep sorrow we feel for our loss, and our high estimate of that gifted 
and holy life now ended upon earth. "A prince and a great man has fallen in 
Israel," and the Church on earth mourns this daj^ the loss of one of her wisest 
counsellors and safest guides, one of her most faithful priests and loving pastors. 

Resolved, That to the congregation of Christ Church we extend our heartfelt 
sympathy, realizing that their loss is ours also, and that we pray a double 
portion of his saintly spirit may descend on him who is to continue the work to 
which Dr. Craik gave his life. 

Resolved, That we mourn with the afflicted and bereaved family, and earnestly 
pray that God, who never willingly afflicts or grieves the children of men, to 

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comfort and support them, and grant them that peace which the world can neither 
give nor take away. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Vestry, 
printed in the Kentucky Church Chronicle, and that copies he sent to the afflicted 
family and to the Yestry of Christ Church. 

Attest: A true copy. C. J. WalTON, 

Secretary of the Vestry. 



TRUSTEES OF THE CHURCH HOME AND INFIRMARY. 

Copy of resolutions adopted by the Trustees of the Church 
Home and Infirmary at a special meeting held July 6, 1882. 

The Trustees of the Church Home and Infirmary, assembled in 
special meeting, would place upon record their sense of irreparable 
loss in the departure to the rest of Paradise of the Rev. James 
Craik, D. D., LL. D., their first President. They would have those 
who come after them to know that his influence guided the munifi- 
cence of the founder into this direction, and that his hand shaped 
the policy which shall govern this great charity. And while they 
would bow in meek submission to the will of the all-wise and all- 
loving Father, they can but express their sorrow that Dr. Craik 
was taken away before the Institution was completely organized 
and open, and earnestly pray that they who are left may gain 
inspiration from his example to be more diligent and efficient 
servants of the Institution he loved so well. 

The Trustees would hereby signify their gratification at the 
suggestion to make certain chambers in the Home a memorial of 
Dr. Craik, and to call them by his name, and would pledge them- 
selves to aid in its accomplishment. 

" In sending a copy of this minute to Mrs. Craik, the Trustees 
would assure her of their sympathy, that they sorrow with her in 
their common bereavement, and with her would praise God that 
for so many years her husband was permitted to be the wise and 
beloved head of his happy home, of a great congregation of 
Christian people, and of so many works of Christ-like charities. 

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TRIBUTES FROM DIFFEREE-T SOURCES. 



FROM THE NE^W YORK TVORLD. 

The Rev. James Craik, D.D., LL.D., died on Friday night 
at his home, near Louisville, Ky., in his seventy-sixth year. 
Dr. Craik was born in Alexandria, Va., and was graduated at 
Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky., then the most famous 
educational institution in the West. His father died while the 
son was yet a boy, and his early training was received under 
the direction of his grandfather, who was Washington's family 
physician. Dr. Craik's father was Washington's private secre- 
tary. Dr. Craik studied medicine, but did not practice. He 
then studied law, and moved to Kanawha, Ya., where he gained 
a large practice. In 1829 he married Juliet Shrewsbury, who 
survives him. In 1839 the young lawyer entered the ministry 
of the Episcopal Church, and in 1844 was called to the Rec- 
torship of Christ Church, Louisville, which position he occupied 
for the rest of his life. For five successive terms, or fifteen 
years, he was presiding officer of the General Convention of 
the Episcopal Church. In church politics he was conservative, 
or what is known as a "Prayer-Book Churchman,'' allying him- 
self Avith neither faction of his Church, but respected by both. 
He gained a reputation as a controversial writer by his works 
in support of the position of the Church as opposed to the doc- 
trines of Mill, Darwin, and others. 

For several months Dr. Craik has been confined to the house, his 
illness being a trouble of the heart, consequent upon old age and ner- 
vous exhaustion, the result of the hard and constant work of a life- 
time. A notice of his life would be incomplete without a mention of 
his great gentleness and the affection with which he inspired 

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those with whom he came in contact. He was liberal in his 
views and cheerful in his religion. He leaves a large family of 
children and grandchildren. His youngest son^ the Rev. Charles 
E. Craik, who was for some time an assistant to Dr. Snively, 
of Brooklyn, and afterward Rector of the American Episcopal 
Church in Geneva, Switzerland, has for the last year been his 
father's assistant at Christ Church, and will doubtless succeed to 
the Rectorship. 

FARMER'S HOME JOURNAL. 

This eminent clergyman died at his residence, near Louisville, 
June 9th, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. For nearly thirty- 
eight years he was Rector of Christ Church in this city, and 
under his ministration the membership of his Church not only 
increased over ten-fold, but new churches have been built by 
the congregation. The Orphanage of the Good Shepherd, 
a magnificent institution for the care and education of orphan 
boys, has been started in successful operation, and another grand 
charitable institution, the Church Home and Infirmary, that will 
be a most imposing edifice, has been nearly completed, as a free 
gift, by a generous member of Christ Church. These works are 
the result of Dr. Craik's teachings. 

He was an able writer, and several of his works have been 
adopted as text-books in one or more church schools. While 
always a prominent leader in his own diocese, his highest posi- 
tion in the Church was as President of the House of Deputies 
of the General Convention, which met in Ncav York in 1862. 
This position he held up to 1874, and to his conservative influ- 
ence is due much of the honor of preserving peace and harmony 
in the councils of the Church during the perilous times of the 
late civil war. 

Dr. Craik's grandfather Avas General Washington's family phy- 
sician, and in his will General Washington bequeathed to Dr. 

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Craik^s grandfather his secretary and book-case, which antique 
piece of furniture is still in the family. Dr. Craik was educated 
at Alexandria, Ya., and afterward attended the medical school of 
Transylvania University at Lexington. It was while at Lexington 
that he acquired the friendship of Dr. Holley, the President of 
Transylvania, and who persuaded him to study law instead of 
medicine. He consequently graduated at the law school, and prac- 
ticed his profession at Charleston, on the Kanawha River, West 
Virginia. In a few years, however, he was satisfied that his duty 
in life was to preach the Gospel of Christ, and in 1839 he was 
ordained by Bishop Meade as a minister of the Episcopal Church. 
In 1844 he removed to Louisville with his wife, who was Miss 
Shrewsbury, and took charge of Christ Church as Rector, which 
position he retained up to his death, so beloved was he by the 
large and influential congregation of that venerable Church. 

In 1850 he purchased thirty acres of old worn-out land, then 
several miles out, but now only one short mile from the limits of 
this city. Here he erected a large brick mansion and laid off the 
grounds in tasteful landscape style. With his own hands he 
planted trees that are now of magnificent proportions, and the 
bare, naked cornfield of thirty-two years since is now one of the 
most beautiful suburban homes in the vicinity of Louisville. Dr. 
Craik attributed his good health and that of his family to the 
pure air of his suburban home. His own good health enabled him 
to accomplish a vast amount of mental and physical labor. 

Every day it was his rule to exercise two or three hours in 
the open air. He would mow the bluegrass on the well-kept 
lawn, or would hoe the rose-beds — of which he always had the 
finest — or work the flowers which grew in masses all about in 
bright spots, trim his fruit trees and gra2)e vines, or he would cul- 
tivate his vegetable garden. At his home always were to be found 
the finest and earliest vegetables, the best butter, the richest milk, 
and the greatest abundance of eggs and chickens in the whole 
neighborhood. In all his farming operations he was practical and 

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successful. During the fifty-three years of married life he was 
aided by his wife in his daily work^ whether in their household 
affairs or in visiting the poor and needy and in administering to 
their necessities, in consoling the distressed and sorrowing, or in 
cheering and encouraging those who were struggling in the battle 
of life. 

But in the family circle, surrounded by a large family of sons 
and daughters, Dr. and Mrs. Craik were the brightest, the most 
cheerful, the happiest of beings. Here pure and unselfish love 
reigned supreme, and the crowds of visitors that always filled 
their hospitable mansion seemed to be attracted by the joyous and 
affectionate bearing of the household toward each other, and lin- 
gered long at such a heavenly home. And it seems Divine Prov- 
idence had indeed blessed it, for in almost a third of a century 
the only deaths that have occurred in that house were an infant 
grandchild, the youngest of the family, and this last and greatest 
blow — the gathering of the venerable patriarch to his eternal 
home. 

Such a noble life as this deserves more than a passing notice, 
for it is a living example worthy of imitation, and one too which 
no one can follow without meeting his own reward. 



KENTUCKY CHURCH CHRONICLE. 

After a long illness the Eev. Dr. James Craik died on the 
night of June 9th, thus fulfilling his course in this life, and 
entering upon his eternal rest. 

Dr. Craik was born at Alexandria, Ya., in 1806. Upon leaving 
college he studied law, and entering upon the practice of that 
profession he soon achieved such a measure of success, and won 
such a rank at the bar, that the highest honors of the profession 
seemed assured him. After a few years of successful practice, in 
spite of the remonstrance of his friends, who protested against his 
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sacrificing such bright worldly prospects, he became a candidate 
for Holy Orders, and was ordained at Charlottesville in 1839. He 
served the Church for awhile at Kanawha, now known as Charles- 
ton, West Virginia, and in 1844 accepted the Rectorship of Christ 
Church, Louisville. For thirty and eight years he filled that 
position, discharging its duties with such zealous fidelity and emi- 
nent wisdom that he ever kept his parish, not only in the fore- 
front as to the rest of the Diocese, but as the leading congregation 
of the city. 

In the Diocese Dr. Craik always held the first place. Its honors 
were freely bestowed upon him, because it was recognized by all 
that the first place was his due. This feeling, which gave him the 
leadership in the Council of the Diocese, and which, year after 
year, made him President of the Standing Committee, was shared 
by the Church at large in the country, resulting in his election in 
1862 as President of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies in 
the General Convention of the Church. This is the highest office 
that can be held by a priest in the American Church, and this 
office Dr. Craik retained till 1877, when the infirmities of age ren- 
dered him physically unequal to the discharge of its onerous duties. 

Of an amiable disposition, and with a gentleness of manner as 
tender as a woman^s. Dr. Craik won all w^ho came in personal 
contact with him, and attached his people to him with the strong 
bands of love. His genial smile and kind words were but the 
natural expression of a true sympathy which made his people^s 
joys and sorrows his own, rendering him the model pastor. Ever 
welcome in the homes of his parishioners, he was sure to be there 
in the days of affliction, and he who had placed on their infant 
brows the sign of the Cross, who had presented them to receive the 
laying on of Apostolic hands, who had pronounced the Church's 
benediction on their marriage vows, who had baptized their chil- 
dren and performed the last sad rites of the Church over their 
dead, who came with a great heart overflowing with loving sym- 
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comfort. Is it strange then that the great congregation mourn for 
the loss of their pastor as children lament the death of their father? 
Verily he was their father^ and they were his children in Christ. 

But this tender pastor, this amiable man of gentle mien and 
voice, was the valiant soldier, ever in the thickest of the fight 
when the cause of catholic truth was in peril. He ever stood 
forth, with armor on and sword in hand, as the champion of the 
faith once delivered, ready to meet and repel attack from any 
quarter. In the many controversies that have agitated the Church 
during the last forty years Dr. Craik has always borne a prominent 
part. Jealous for the cause of Christ and His Church, he could 
never consent to be silent when danger threatened, but as a faithful 
watchman on the towers of Zion he would lift up his voice to 
warn and to teach. 

The value of Dr. Craik's labors can not be calculated by human 
arithmetic, nor their worth measured by earthly standards, but 
certain works, to be seen of all men, remain as monuments to the 
zeal and wisdom which marked his efforts. 

The great parish that has grown up under his ministry would 
be ample reward for an ordinary man's lifetime labor, but Dr. 
Craik believed in a visible Church, one that could be known by 
its fruits, one that should imitate its blessed Master in going about 
doing good not only to the souls of men, but also to their bodies. 
Therefore he taught his people not only to give of their means 
and labor to establish other parishes (several of w^iich in the city, 
and in other parts of the Diocese, owe their existence to Christ 
Church), but to found homes where the orphan, the sick, and the 
aged could receive Christian care, and be ministered unto in Christ's 
name and for His sake. The fruits of this teaching are seen in the 
Orphanage of the Good Shepherd, the Home of the Innocents, and 
the Church Home and Infirmary. Then to Dr. Craik, more than to 
any other man, is due the introduction into the Diocese of the Sister- 
hood, by which woman's work can be organized and utilized, and 
these charities made to succeed. This was a favorite object, for 

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which he labored many years, and which he was spared to see 
accomplished. 

The domestic life of this aged priest is too sacred a subject to, 
be treated in public print, and yet how can one who has ever 
enjoyed the rare privilege of joining the family circle at "Kanawha" 
write of Dr. Craik now without mentioning that model Christian 
home? There a generous hospitality awaited every guest, and the 
warm welcome made the visitor feel that he, too, was but one of 
the children of that lovely couple who, for nearly three score years, 
trod the pathway of life together. There, parents and children, 
brothers and sisters, vied with each other to make home a sacred 
place in which peace and happiness reigned, and where all things 
spoke of the Eternal Home where sorrow and parting shall be 
unknown, and where now the devoted husband and affectionate father 
awaits the coming of his loved ones. 

Such was the man that the Diocese of Kentucky has lost. God 
give us who remain grace to imitate the good example of this 
faithful servant, that like him, when our course is accomplished, 
we may be gathered to our fathers full of years and good works. 



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IN MEMORIAM. 



OOEEESPOl^^DEI^CE. 



It being the wish of the Yestry of Christ Church that a 
Memorial Service should be held in which all the Churches of the 
city might participate, the 2d of July, the fourth Sunday after 
Trinity, was chosen for the occasion. 

The following correspondence resulting therefrom explains itself: 



Louisville, Ky., June 16, 1882. 

Rev. and Dear Sir : I am directed by the Vestry of Christ Church to commu- 
nicate to you the following resolution, adopted at their meeting on June 15th: 

"That Bishop Dudley be requested to arrange for a service in memory of our 
late Pastor, appointing such day as will best suit his convenience. Further, that 
it is the wish of the Yestry that the Holy Communion should be administered at 
the morning service and the memorial sermon be delivered in the afternoon." 

Yours truly, 

JOHN B. BANGS, 
To Et. Kev. T. U. Dudley, D. D., Secretary. 

Assistant Bishop of Kentucky. 



Louisville, Ky., June 17, 1882. 
John B. Bangs, Esq., Secretary of the Yestry of Christ Church, Louisville, Ky. : 

My Dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of yester- 
day communicating to me a resolution adopted by your vestry. 

In reply, I wish to say that it will be a melancholy pleasure to me to officiate 
at a service in memory of my dearly loved friend and most highly venerated 
counsellor, your late Rector; and to endeavor to set forth in a sermon my estimate 
of his character. 

Inasmuch as you seem to desire my services both morning and afternoon, I 
must fix Sunday the 2d of July as the first on which I can thus be present with 
you. Faithfully yours, 

T. U. DUDLEY,- 
Assistant Bishop of Kentucky. 

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On the afternoon of the 2d July, all the clergy of the city 
being in the chancel, evening prayer was said and the Kt. Rev. 
the Assistant Bishop of the Diocese delivered the following 



MEMOEIAL SEEMO]^. 



A Good Soldier oe Jesus Christ. — 2 Timothy, ii, 3. 

Perhaps of all the titles employed by New Testament writers 
to describe the Christian Minister none is more suggestive than 
this word ^^ soldier/^ You know that earthly things can with 
difficulty shadow forth the heavenly, and that therefore many 
human analogies must be sought to set forth in even partial com- 
pleteness a single one of the eternal realities of the heavenly 
kingdom. So we are not surprised that the great Apostle demands 
that he and his brethren of the chosen band shall be accounted as 
the Ministers, the Servants of the Lord^s Christ and of all men 
for the Lord^s sake, for the Master Himself did picture His 
kingdom as the marriage of a King's son whose servants are sent 
to call the bidden, and at last to empty the lanes and highways, 
that the wedding may be furnished with guests. 

But not only servants, he is quick to add, for the Master 
Himself had enfranchised them into freedom and friendship, and 
by His appointment they are Stewards of His household, to dis- 
pense to His children that mysterious treasure He had committed 
unto them. 

Pastors they are, for the Lord Himself did so represent them 
when, rebuking Scribes and Pharisees for their neglect. He por- 
trayed the character of His true Minister in the necessary self- 
sacrifice of the shepherd who must go after the sheep that is lost 
till he find it. 

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Teachers they most be, for He commanded them, " Go make 
disciples of all the nation, teaching them to observe whatsoever 
things I commanded you.'' 

And yet see how there is in each and every one of such 
portrayals a something lacking to give perfect understanding of the 
office and its bearer, which lack is supplied by the w^ord spoken of 
St. Paul to his youthful representative at Ephesus. The Servant 
must be a Soldier as well, for in every age the parable shall find 
fulfillment and the heralds of loving invitation be ^^ entreated spite- 
fully'' by those whom they go to summon. The Steward of mysteries 
needs be soldier as well, for now, as in the old time, there shall be 
^^oppositions of science, falsely so called;" now, as in the old time, 
will ungodly men creep in unawares and "turn the grace of our God 
into lasciviousness, and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus 
Christ;" and therefore now, as in the old time, must the Steward 
" contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto 
the Saints." The Pastor shall meet many a wolf come to tear and 
destroy the weaklings of his fold ; again and again must he go after 
the wandering and the lost. Hardness to be endured will be his 
portion, and the courageous patience of a good Soldier alone suffice 
that he may deliver his charge from "the lion and the bear." 

The Teacher shall find enemies, visible and invisible, devils and 
men, to build barriers against the redeeming truth he would impart. 
Always and every where the " itching ears will heap to them- 
selves teachers after their own lusts;" always and every where the 
smooth things of pleasing prophecy shall turn away men from the 
healthful doctrine once for all delivered, and the Teacher must do 
valiant battle with the perverters of God's truth ere he can gain even 
possible opportunity to impart that truth which maketh wise unto 
salvation. 

And shall we be surprised at these things? Nay, we remember 
that the Master said, " I came not to send peace but a sword." * 
We remember how, in the supper-room in the night of the betrayal, 
He declared the termination of the period of their peaceful min- 

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istration: "He that hath a purse^ let him take it and likewise 
a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell his cloak and buy 
a sword.^^ 

And they said unto Him, " Lord, behold, here are two swords.^' 
And he said unto them, "It is enough." 

Servants, Stewards, Pastors, Teachers, they are, and yet he seems 
to add Soldiers as well. In a little while He shall heal the 
smitten foe, and teach His followers that the weapons of their 
warfare must not be carnal, and yet good Soldiers of Jesus Christ 
he has ordained them to be. 

We are met, beloved in the Lord, in loving memory of your 
departed Rector. I am come at your bidding, that together we 
may call to mind the features of that character which for thirty 
and eight years has borne the scrutiny of this city's eye. We would 
together praise God for the gift of this His servant to our age 
and to our home; we would seek to know more fully and more 
accurately the grounds of this our thanksgiving, that we, especially 
we of the Clergy, may gain inspiration from his example to do 
more valiant service in the years to come. To this end I am come 
to speak, and straightway these words of exhortation from St. Paul 
to his son Timothy offer themselves as the capacious vehicle of 
all my thought — "A good Soldier of Jesus Christ.'' 

Thus, then, I propose to speak of him as suggested in the 
thoughts with which I have introduced my discourse, as Minister, 
Steward, Pastor, and Teacher; and I would express to you if I 
can how, in each of these characters, there were yet ever manifest 
as modifying, informing, and controlling it, the manly frankness, 
the honest conviction, the fearless utterance, and the wise prudence 
of the good soldier of the beloved Lord and Savior. 

Beyond controversy James Craik was a Minister of Jesus Christ. 
Always, every where, and under all circumstances he was this, the 
Servant of the Master who had bought him with the price of his 
own blood. Ah! could these old walls but tell the thousand 
thousand words which they have heard from his lips when, as the 

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Herald^ he, week after week and day after day, made proclamation 
of his Master^s message: ^^ Behold all things are ready, come ye to 
the marriage ! ^' Would they not tell how the eye did flash and 
the cheek flush as the Soldier-Servant eagerly strove to make plain 
the invitation which has been distorted by other, it may be honest 
eflbrt to tell it? Whether i't were to take away the limitations 
which metaphysics and theology had put upon the limitless love 
of the Father, or to expose the fallacy of a supposed essential 
routine of emotional experience; whether it were to deny the 
asserted requirement of a superstitious puritan ism of self-abnega- 
tion, or the more deadly delusion of reliance upon the propitia- 
tion of an unbloody sacrifice; Avhether it were to denounce the 
exclusion from his Master's house and covenant of the innocents 
who are fittest to receive such blessing, or the inexorable necessity 
that an ordinance be administered in only one particular mode, 
the Servant of Christ did ever show himself a good Soldier, ready 
and not afraid to contend earnestly with the sword of the Spirit, 
which is the Word of God, for the faith once for all delivered to 
the Saints. 

And did not the hardness come, the inevitable wages of the 
good Soldier? Thanks to God's goodness, ere I came to lead this 
militant host, whereof he for so long had been the chief warrior, 
the result of his patient faithfulness was manifest; men had learned 
to understand that for the ancient faith, pure and simple, that 
only and that complete, he did contend; but am I not speaking 
to men to-day who can remember well the charge of disloyalty 
to Protestant truth which greeted his exposition of the revelation 
of the Christ? Have not your ears caught the word Jesuit, 
Eomanist, as applied to him? But the Servant still called in 
lane and highway, and the soldier spirit which was in him 
suffered no change in the tone or substance of his message. Ah, 
the multitude that has greeted him in the Paradise, to whom he 
did show the true and living way into that light where they stand! 
Minister of Christ, he was a good Soldier of Jesus. 

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But, secondly, '^ let a man so account of us," says the great 
Apostle, '^as of Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the mysteries 
of God/^ 

I will not now enter into the discussion Avhether in this pas- 
sage the word ^'mysteries'' has any reference to the Sacraments of 
our religion or is wholly limited to the description of that truth 
"Avhich was kept secret since the world began, but now made 
manifest." For certainly the very lowest conception of a Sacra- 
ment must consider it as '^ visibile t-erbiim/^ the visible word of God, 
the representation of a truth of our religion, most undiscoverable 
by human reason, and therefore best entitled to be called '^ mys- 
tery" in the Scriptural sense. And just as certainly the Church 
has ever applied the word in this accommodated sense to Bap- 
tism and the Lord's Supper, and to her ordained Ministers has 
given the exclusive authority for their dispensation. "Be thou a 
faithful dispenser of the Word of God, and of his Holy Sacra- 
ments." This was the charge he received so long ago from the 
higher Steward who sent him to feed the Lord's household; how 
has he obeyed the commandment? Diligent in the administra- 
tion of the sacred ordinances ? Yes ; no one will question that 
he was, nor that he ever exhorted his people wdth all loving 
earnestness that they defer not the bringing their little ones to 
the "laver of regeneration," that themselves turn never away from 
the Sacramental feast where the Father meets His child. All this 
is easy ; the cases of dereliction in this mere formal routine, and 
even of failure to plead for due observance of sacramental rite, 
must, Ave would fain believe, be rare. But in this day of specu- 
lative restlessness, of spiritual indolence, the StcAA^ard, if he Avould 
be found faithful, must banish and drive aAA-ay many "erroneous 
and strange doctrines contrary to God's Word," Avhich on the one 
hand Avould degrade the Christ-giA^en ordinance into a mere sign, 
a picture of Calvary, an infrequent and extraordinary means to 
excite emotion ; or, on the other hand, further degrade it into a 
miracle, which the senses repudiate ; a sacrifice Avhich is an insult to 

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the perfect and complete redemption ; a spectacular performance 
10 produce irrational awe; a delusive worship of an inexplicable 
Presence. 

And the Steward must be good Soldier of his Lord to dare to 
resist the tendency in either direction; to withstand the small 
beginnings whose results unthinking and uninstructed devotion can 
not foresee^ and to proclaim with unmistakable plainness and deci- 
sion, by word and act, spoken and unspoken, committed and omit- 
ted, the unalterable truth that " Sacraments ordained of Christ be 
not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession, but rather 
they be certain sure witnesses, and effectual signs of grace and 
God's good will toward us, by the which He doth work invisibly in 
us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our 
faith in Him ; " and on the other hand, that '^ in such only as worthily 
receive the same they have a wholesome effect or operation/' 

Answer, men and women, has it not been so in the dispensa- 
tion of these mysteries by him whose work is done? Did he 
not stand firm and unshaken in the old path, even at the very 
point where the two ways meet, in which are journeying the 
multitudes who cry aloud each in praise of their new found 
track? The one party are declaring that logical consistency 
demands the exclusion of all material act of worship in a 
spiritual religion, that there is no place for ministerial authority, 
or sacramental gift; and their cries are met by those over against 
them, who with like cruel persistency of logic will have the 
religion of Jesus to be but a system of ordinances of infallible 
efficacy, if only they be administered by the hands of a priestly 
caste? Believe me, men and women, the spirit of the good Sol- 
dier was needed and was present to keep the Steward faithful. 

Third — How shall I dare speak of their dead Pastor to this con- 
gregation? I am assured that well nigh all of those to whom he 
ministered in his declining years have lain in his arms in infancy; 
his hand has poured the consecrated stream upon their forehead; 
he has lead them to receive the Church's benediction and the 

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Lord's own spiritual food. His the voice that has sounded in the 
chamber of their lamentation^ when the hovering angels made 
ready to carry the loved one away to the Paradise, as in the joy- 
ful company in the hall of feasting when he had given the 
Church's blessing to the newly wed. Oh, if ever before, here is 
realized the picture of the Pastor, drawn by the Good Shepherd 
himself, ^^and when he putteth forth his own sheep he goeth 
before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.'' 
Yes, his flock did know his voice and loved it, because in all 
these years it ever spake only in tenderness and truth. How glee- 
fully the little ones ran to welcome him; how beautiful to the 
stranger's eye was the greeting of the mothers whom their chil- 
dren summoned to see their Pastor, for to them he was their 
father and to him they too were but little children. But may I 
not declare in your name that truth, equally with tenderness, did 
characterize even these the closest ministrations of the Minister to 
his people? Am I not speaking to men and women to-day who 
can hear even now the voice that is still, warning them away 
from the path whose opening seemed to promise only security 
and delight, or urgiug them forward in the way that no pleasure' 
brightened, because his watchful eye could see the beyond of result? 
Have not some of us thought him almost to depart from the 
principles of Christian liberty as to individual moral practice 
which were part of the platform of his ministry, when we have 
heard him plead and expostulate and warn even the assembled 
Diocese in Council against the wolf of intemperance which has 
torn to its death so many a fair life in our own ecclesiastical 
community? Ah, friends, it was because he was Pastor to watch 
for souls; because he was a good Soldier to fight against all that 
would harm his flock, that he so spake. Because larger and sad- 
der experience had taught him to understand better than we the 
subtlety and the power of the enemy, therefore he as good Soldier 
was constrained to inveigh against the sinless customs of our social 
life to which his own genial social nature tempted him to conform. 

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But, would we see the evidence of his Pastor care for the lost 
little ones for whom Christ died, and of the soldier nature which 
would not be daunted by appalling difficulties, go visit the 
Orphans^ Home that his efforts builded, fitly named for '^ The 
Good Shepherd/^ where helpless innocence is nursed by the 
Church's own servants ; and for Christ's dear sake, and in His 
name, mother-love is given to them who else had never known 
its blessing. Go see the Church's Home for the aged, the poor, 
the suifering and the dying, and for those who shall minister to 
them, which his friend under his influence is giving to our city. 
For how many years did he, almost unaided, stand up in this 
Diocese for the value and the legitimacy of organized woman's 
work in the Church! For how many years did he bear the 
opprobrium which unthinking but honest Protestant prejudice 
would put upon the man who dared approve an agency which has 
been Kome's most efficient and effective instrument ! But the 
Pastor would care for the lambs of the flock, the fatherless, the 
motherless, the deserted; he would provide soothing solace for the 
sick and the dying, and he had learned that the experience of 
Christendom, the reason of thinking men and the sacred Scrip- 
tures of Jesus Christ all alike testify that the Order of Deaconess 
ought to be and is as lawful a part of the Christian Church as 
that of the Deacon. Because he was good Soldier he gave not up 
the battle, and I thank God that I can hope that to-day there 
remain but few in our Communion unwilling to admit and to 
employ this most valuable instrumentality. 

Sweetest of all the beautiful offerings with which love did seek 
to hide the paraphernalia of death was that shepherd's crook which 
lay upon the dead Pastor's bier, the symbol of the love of the Sisters 
and their orphan boys, to whom he had been ^' Good Shepherd." 

But, fourthly, I would say that your late Rector was pre-emi- 
nently a Teacher, a Christian Teacher, and that the limits of his 
teaching were on every side the limits which the ancient historic 
Church has fixed for the restraint of her servants — these only, 

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but these always. His sermons from this pulpit, while, as I have 
already suggested, they were ever clarion calls to the sinner to 
repent and believe the gospel, yet were they always the discourses 
of the Teacher rather than the mere exhortations of the Preacher. 
He seemed ever to desire to lay broad and deep foundations 
whereon the after years should build the goodly edifice of reason- 
able service, rather than to spend his strength in the effort to 
compel the sudden and impulsive submission of will and confes- 
sion of Christ. 

Recognizing the wisdom of the Churches system to train the 
infant Christian into noble manhood and recognition of its Chris- 
tian citizenship, his method was that of patient instruction, ^^ Line 
upon line, precept upon precept." 

Recognizing as well the dangers to Christian belief in popular 
misconception of the religion of Christ, as well as in the sys- 
tematic assaults of scientific materialism, his pulpit was often the 
tribune from which, as I have already suggested, he struck sturdy 
and telling blows against both the one and the other. 

Perhaps the influence was greater, both in kind and extent, 
which he wielded with his pen than that exerted by his spoken 
address. His style was lucid, forcible, direct. No meretricious 
ornament disfigures his page, but his argument proceeds in a 
straight line from earliest premise to remotest conclusion. 

Thirty-two years ago, as he tells us in the last edition of what 
I am bold to call his great book, he had formed profound con- 
victions that modern skepticism was but a natural reaction from 
the narrowness of the popular theology, and ^' an attempt/^ he 
says, "was made to prove that the Bible and the Church teach a 
religion far more catholic and better adapted to human need and 
intelligence than much of the prevalent theology of our time.'' 
Yes, the good Soldier was brave to speak aloud upon the house- 
tops, to scatter upon the wings of the wind his accusations of 
narrowness against the systems which he believed to be hindering 
the gospel he was sent to preach. 

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IN ME MORI AM, 

The years pass by^, filled very full with the daily round of 
pastoral duty faithfully pursued and the weekly preparation for 
the Sunday's sermons never neglected, and yet the Christian 
teacher finds time to keep his thought fully abreast of the ever 
advancing line of the age^s speculation, and ever and anon there 
issues from the quiet meditation of Kanawha the Essay which sets 
many minds to earnest work. Is false theory raising its head 
within the sacred inclosure of the Church, our Teacher dares not 
keep silent, but with knightly courtesy strikes the shield of the 
very chiefest champion of what he thinks heresy and his trumpet 
sounds defiant challenge to the contest. 

When the reputation gained by honest and successful labors in 
the department of physical science is giving fictitious value and 
delusive attractiveness to the irreligion of the great scientist, our 
warrior prophet would not keep silent, but must warn his coun- 
trymen that the conclusions of the philosopher have shaken not a 
hair's breadth the immovable foundations of the Gospel of Jesus. 
Yes, when the old eyes were dim, and could no more gather the 
thoughts from the printed page, yet the natural force was not 
abated, the teacher must still learn by the help of those whom 
he had cherished what the world and the Church were thinking and 
saying, and but a little while before the brave heart ceased to 
beat and the busy brain to labor, the Church papers were filled 
with thoughts he had sent to our Church Review, which came 
like sunlight to render clear a question which for years past had 
been enveloped in clouds of misty sentiment. 

Dr. Craik was a great Minister and a great Pastor. His 
work has been tried and doth endure. The Congregation which 
worships in this House is evidence unimpeachable of his great- 
ness. But he was a great Teacher as well. The younger theo- 
logians of our Communion are debtors to his fearless and plain 
expositions of the Catholic simplicity of the religion of our 
Lord, though it may be that, like the speaker, they were a long 
time in ignorance of the obligation, and. came as to a revelation 



IN MEMORIAM. 

to the little volume in which^ two score years ago, he made so 
plain many things which they had groped for in sadness and 
with pain. 

And finally, beloved, let me say that in my conception three 
characteristics chiefly determined the ministry of him whom we 
have met to honor, and made him what he was in the perform- 
ance of every duty pertaining to his sacred office. 

First — He was a man of convictions — mark you, a man of 
convictions, and not mere opinions. The evidence for certain 
facts and certain doctrines had conquered him, and they therefore 
held their places as supreme, unquestioned rulers of his life; 
and because he thus believed, he spake, and spake as one 
having authority. 

"The victory that overcometh the world,'' saith the beloved 
disciple, " is faith.'' True always and every where, the conqueror 
is the believer,- the convinced of that for which he contends. 

Conviction alone can make the Good Soldier of any cause; con- 
viction of its worthiness and of the worthiness of the leader in 
whom it is incarnate, for only of conviction can courage, highest 
and truest courage, be begotten. Because Dr. Craik was convinced 
of the divine origin and the enduring obligation of the Apostolic 
Ministry, therefore he bore ever unfaltering testimony to the evil 
of separation, to the bounden duty of re-union. Think you that 
to him came never the temptation to go with the multitude, to 
abandon the ancient polity, to gratify the natural desire for union 
in the yielding of peculiarities of asserted indifference, and so to 
speed the coming of the blessed day when all believers shall again 
be one? ^ay, but he was convinced, mark you, convinced, that 
the Lord did build his Church, that He fashioned its polity, and 
that therefore His arrangement must be best forever, and that 
departure from it is necessarily sin. And do you not see that 
because there was conviction there must be, and there was, courage 
to make it known, and to endure any and all consequences of its 
utterance ? 

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IN ME MORI AM. 

My brother men, my brother Christians, if so be that this 
conviction finds no place in your mind, yet honor the man who 
held it and dared to speak it — for remember^ the men of convic- 
tions, strong and vigorous, fruitful of courage, these are the men, 
and these only on whom we may lean in every department of life. 

But above all, in my judgment, his distinguishing characteristic 
was wisdom. Long and patient study of the Word of God; long 
and patient contemplation of the mysteries of life ; the maturing 
influences of the fiery heat of controversy and of the gentle dews 
of grace, all these had made him, ere it was my privilege to see 
his face, the wise man, the prudent counsellor, on whose word his 
younger brother, though placed over him in ecclesiastical govern- 
ment, rejoiced to lean and feel secure. And this the great 
Church of our nation did recognize, and summon him to preside 
over her Council in the stormy days of strife, when wisdom was 
needed to hold the helm lest the Ark of God be broken by the 
surging waves of political animosity. And though to God our 
Father be given all the praise for the self-restraint which could 
keep patriotism silent, that it tell not its eager desire in the sacred 
Council of the Church of Christ, yet may we not, must we not, 
believe that the wise conservatism, the far-reaching vision of the 
end, the patient moderation, of the President were at least one 
agency employed of God to effect His purpose ? Alas ! beloved 
brethren, herein we shall feel most keenly the departure of the 
venerable and venerated Priest. Ministers and Pastors, Stewards 
and Teachers, are still in the Church. Many devoted, successful 
Soldiers of Jesus Christ are left — men of convictions and of the 
courage which convictions give. But, alas ! few and widely sepa- 
rated are they who, earnestly contending for what they believe to 
be " the faith" once for all delivered, are yet wise to know when 
to speak and when to be silent, able to recognize the differing 
administrations of the one and the self-same Spirit, patient to 
prove all things and hold fast that which is good, unyielding in 
devotion to the Ancient Order, and yet with wise condescension 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

ever seeking to win back the long estranged. Therefore it was 
that when in this Chancel there came the full realization that he 
was indeed departed, the cry of my heart — and I know of many 
another here to-day — was that of the Prophet on whom did 
devolve the leadership of the Israel from whom Elijah was taken 
away, '^ My father, my father, thou chariot of Israel and the 
horsemen thereof! '^ 

The grass begins to grow green vipon the narrow house where 
his body sleeps; his chair in this Chancel is filled by him who he 
had best loved should sit there, and so he being dead shall yet 
speak the very same lessons of truth to his children in the common 
faith. I bid you, O Congregation of Christ Church, be not afraid 
because your head has been taken away. Go forward bravely in 
the work and warfare he taught you to essay. If your spiritual 
eyes are opened wide, ye too may see, as Elisha did, the chariot 
and horses of fire round about us, the symbol and assurance of 
the favor and protection of Him whom we serve. Man dies, but 
the Church of the living God endureth forever. 

May I not, must I not, speak one word more? What shall 
be the visible material Memorial of him whose loss we. deplore? 
Doubtless in no long time the sunlight will reveal to the wonder- 
ing eyes of your little ones the colors of another window " richly 
dight^' in this Chancel, and make them know, when they shall have 
learned to read the legend beneath, how Christ Church was bereaved 
of her two great Pastors in so short a space of time. But shall 
this be all ? True, the Orphanage of the Good Shepherd, the 
Church Home and Infirmary, the Deaconesses of the Diocese, 
shall each be his monument; but, men and women of Christ 
Church, is it not fitting and right that somewhere in our 
city there shall be a building called by his name, born of his 
death, where men shall carry onward the work for which he 
lived his noble life? Why shall not the Church of the Advent, 
whereof he was founder, and which the clergy of Christ Church 
served so long, be made his memorial ? Let us build it close to 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

the gateway of our Cemetery, by the side of the road along which 
he journeyed daily back and forth to his duty, and where so often 
he looked out on the multitude around him, and grieved in his 
heart that they were as sheep having no 'shepherd. There let it 
stand with spire pointing through the cross to heaven, to welcome 
the mourners bearing their dead to burial, with sign of deliver- 
ance and life. Perhaps it shall be consolation to your sorrowing 
heart as ye so come thither, that at least the name of the old 
Pastor is there at the graveyard gate, a reminder of the gospel 
hope he taught you long ago. 

' "Who is it that ye mourn as taken away ? ' 
A Minister of Christ, who, day by day, 
Did call us that we come the Christ to meet, 
And fall as suppliants at His royal feet; 
A servant of us all, for Christ's dear sake 
He lived that we Christ's bounty might partake. 

' Who is it that ye mourn by new-made grave ? ' 
A Steward of God's mysteries, who gave 
To us and to our children sacred sign 
Of Jesus' dying love, the bread and wine, 
And taught us that by faith, and faith alone. 
The sign should make His life to be our own. 

' Who is it that ye mourn ? ' A Pastor dear. 
Whose own feet trod our path, and made it clear ; 1, .' ' 

His bosom sheltered faith but newly born ; ' ' > ' 

His care did heal the wound, remove the thorn ; 
His courage did protect, His wisdom led, 
'T is meet his children weep, now he is dead. 

' Who is it that ye mourn ? ' A Teacher wise, 
Whose lips kept knowledge, and whose piercing eyes 
Looked fearless on the problems of our life; 
Who taught us how to win the deadly strife; 
Made plain the Christian freedom Jesus gave, 
Then showed the freedman to be Jesus' slave. 

' Who is it that ye mourn ? ' A Soldier true, 
Ready for Jesus' sake all things to do : 
Assail all error, all God's truth defend, 

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IN MEMORIAM. 

The needy succor, and tlie poor befriend, 
Hardness t' endure, all labor to fulfill, 
If satisfied it was his Master's will. 

The Servant has accomplished his long day ; 
The Steward now his keys hath put away; 
The Pastor's crook is hung upon the wall; 
The Teacher's voice is silent in the hall; 
The Soldier's sword is sheathed, his warfare o'er ; 
The man is saved — yes, saved to sin no more. 

Father, we bless Thy name that Thou didst give 
Such Soldier-servant in thy Church to live. 
We praise thee for his faith, his work; that grace 
Can make us, too, with him, to see Thy face. 
Make us true soldiers, wheresoe'er we stand, 
That we may rest with him at Thy right hand ! 



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IN MEMORIAM. 



COEEESPONDEIsrOE. 



Louisville, Ky., July 5, 1882. 
Et. Eev. T. TJ. Dudley, D.D. 

Rev. and Dear Sir : At a meeting of the Yestry of Christ Church on Monday, 
July 3d, the Secretary was instructed to convey to you their grateful appreciation of 
the eloquent and appropriate sermon delivered by you on Sunday July 2d, in mem- 
ory of the late beloved Eector of that church, and to request a copy of the same for 
publication. Yours very faithfully, 

JOHN B. BANGS, 

Secretary of the Vestry. 



Louisville, Ky., July 10, 1882. 

My Dear Mr. Bangs: I have received your kind note of the 15th instant, and I 
herewith send a copy of the sermon I delivered in memory of the late Eector of 
Christ Church. I am thankful that my effort to delineate the character of your late 
Eector meets the approval of your Vestry, and I am pleased that my words may 
help to perpetuate the memory of a good and great man. 

Faithfully yours, 
John B. Bangs, Esq., T. U. DUDLEY. 

Secretary Vestry of Christ Church, Louisville, Ky. 



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